Egyptian tortoise conservation: A community-based, field research program developed from a study on a captive population

Abstract 10.1002/zoo.20157.abs Local community participation and ex situ conservation has the potential to assist the recovery of the endangered Egyptian tortoise, Testudo kleinmanni. We initiated an in situ community-based conservation and research program from a captive population of T. kleinmanni. We used a captive population of the Egyptian tortoise to train a member of the […]